John Hilton Edwards 1928–2007
John Edwards, formerly Professor of Genetics at Oxford University, died on October 11 of metastatic cancer of the prostate. Over the last 50 years,...
Controversy of the Topic and the Order of Presentation in Persuasive...
A principal idea behind the prediction of a primacy effect in the persuasive co~nmunication situation when opposed arguments are successively presented is that initial...
The impact of experimental design on the application of grazing research...
Funding Bmitations often restrict pasture replication in grazing research on rangeland. Consequently, subsample error has been used to estimate treatment effects or characterize populations....
Computation, Exploration, Visualisation: Reaction to MATLAB in First-Year Mathematics
This paper describes a model for effective incorporation of technology into the learning experience of a large and diverse group of students in first-semester...
Musculoskeletal research at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and...
I want to thank The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery for inviting the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)...
Human Biology and Health
Medical genetics erupted in the late 1950s and early 1960s because the human chromosome number (and anomalies of that number) could be seen with...
Scientific and Technical Visualization in Technology Education.
Background As a direct result of an increasingly technologically integrated society and workplace, national emphasis is being placed on schools to produce technologically literate...
Online toxicology resources in support of risk assessment from the U.S....
The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is the world’s largest biomedical library. NLM’s Specialized...
Commentary: Enhancing assessment in the biological sciences
Assessment practices must reinforce the stated aims of a course; otherwise every lofty aim of teaching is rendered null and void. Students learn very...
The Community of Sentient Beings: J. M. Coetzee’s Ecology in Disgrace...
COETZEE'S ECOLOGY arises in relation to one of the most troubling suggestions in the fiction of his later career. Already in Disgrace (1999), but...
Plagiarism-Proofing Assignments
Mr. Johnson has discovered that the higher the level of student engagement and creativity, the lower the probability of plagiarism. For teachers who would...
Concept Development in Preschool Children.
This paper examines the cognitive process of concept development in preschool children, based on recent psychological research. Rather than attempting an exhaustive review of...
Annotated Bibliography on the Teaching of Psychology: 1983
Groups receiving instructor monitoring were more likely to earn better grades and to comply with the experiment. 2135. Harari, H., Grosslight, B. R, &...
Developing nuclear medicine in developing countries: IAEA’s possible mission
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is one of the many bodies through which the United Nations serves their mandate towards Member States. Less...
Darwin Celebrations Highlight Brain Evolution
Understanding patterns of brain evolution also shows us that different lineages have evolved different structural solutions to similar functional problems. Ito and Yamamoto ...
